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In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30,000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated the issue of appetite can be for women. This is the primary female striving? The appetite to lose appetite? In fact, I suspect the opposite is true: that the primary, underlying striving among many women at the start of the millennium is the appetite for appetite: a longing to feel safe and secure enough to name one's true appetites and worthy and powerful enough to get them satisfied. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#women #dating

It's only one date. I can do it. And you'll probably lose interest afterward." "No other woman's ever needed to give herself a pep talk to spend time with me." "That you know of. ↗

— Ann Bruce

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She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works. ↗

— Gary Reilly

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Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance ↗

— Amit Abraham

#done #importance #dating

She watched through the window. Jerry was walking toward the house again. She waited. It seemed to take forever before there was a knock at the door. She stood there a minute as they looked at one another. He was the high school heartthrob she never had the chance to experience. This was the secret date with her parents away that never happened. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#knock-on-the-door #secret-date #watched #dating

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#i #i think #more #needing #people

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#each #eye #first #intimidating #kind

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. ↗

— John Mayer

#disappointment #equate #even #explain #feels

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life-lessons #dating

I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff. ↗

— Franka Potente

#cool #depp #fault #guy #him